Improved burning-fluid



ATENT OFFICE.

AARON (l. VAUGHAN, OF RAINSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED BURNING-FLUID.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 53,709, dated April 3,1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AARON O. VAUGHAN, of Rainsburg, Bedford county,Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Burning- Fluids; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same.

My invention consists, first, in treating benzine with common resin inthe manner described hereinafter, so as to render the said benzine lessvolatile and less liable to explode; second, myinvention consists of aneconomical burning-fluid composed of benzine treated as above, andordinary illuminating-petroleum.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to practice my invention, Iwill now proceed to describe the manner of carrying it into effect.

The production of benzine is so extensive and its use is so limited thatthe average price for sometime past has been as low as twenty cents pergallon, while good illuminating-oil is at present sold at an averagerate of fiftyfive cents per gallon.

After many careful experiments made with the view of utilizing benzine,I have found that if treated with common resin in the manner describedhereinafter it would becom e,when mixed with petroleum, an economicalburningfluid.

I take the refined benzine and add to each barrel of about forty gallonsfrom ten to twenty pounds of common resin, and allow the mixture toremain quiescent from eighteen to twenty-four hours, when thebenzinewill be in a great measure deprived of its volatile and explosiveproperties. To the forty gallons of benzine thus prepared I add abouteight hundred gallons of ordinary petroleum as preparedfor illuminatingpurposes, when the mixture becomes an available burning-fluid capable ofstanding the fire-test adopted by the United States PetroleumAssociation.

The following calculation will exhibit the economy attained by the useof my invention:

40 gallons of benzine at 20 cts 20 lbs. of resin at 10 cts. per lb 2 00800 gallons of burning-oil at 55 cts. 440 00 $450 00 As the same numberof gallons of ordinary illuminating-oil no better or safer than that"prepared as above costs four hundred and sixtytwo dollars, it will beevident that by the use of my invention a saving of twelve dollars iseffected in the production of eight hundred and forty gallons of a safeburning-fluid.

It should be understood that benzine alone may be converted into a safeburning-fluid by the use of resin, butthat the quantity of resinrequired for the purpose at its present price would not justify thepractice of such treatment, which may, however, be adopted with goodresults when resin is reduced in price.

Without confining myself to the exact proportions of the ingredientsherein set forth, I claim as my invention and desire to secure byLetters Paten t- 1. Treating benzine with common resin in the manner andfor the purpose set forth.

2. A burning-fluid composed of benzine treated with resin and mixed withordinary illuminating-oil, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

AARON O. VAUGHAN.

